I'm trying to launch a windows executable from a perl script. 
$BaseDir = "C:\\Program Files\\myprog\\";
$cmd = $BaseDir."myprog";
`$cmd`;

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The problem is that the backticks wait for the program to be exited before continuing. From my understanding the backticks are supposed to act like exec, not system.

If I do exec $cmd; then it gives me an error because of the space between Program and Files. If I try system is does the same thing the backticks do.

I even tried putting quotations around the file path before I passed it to the exec command but the perl script exits without errors after I close the executed program without finishing the rest of my script.

In reply to Perl Exec with Spaces by nevafuse

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